Hemingway maintained there were no second acts in American lives. The career of the Eighties alternative country pioneer Dan Stuart, a benignly pie-eyed anti-star of gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, might have borne him out. But The Deliverance Of Marlowe Billings could be amongst the best of Stuart’s fourteen albums, his toad bark voice having eroded into a rather touching timbre.
Written beyond the border following marital and mental collapse, and recorded with Italy’s Sacri Cuori, a group clearly inspired by the timeless Americana Stuart’s Green On Red once pedaled, rough-edged cosmic roots rock cradles eleven hard-bitten monologues.
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